Best 389 quotes in «classic quotes» category

The net neutrality game is to make everybody the same so that there's no difference and the prices are the same and if these Millennials got their way nothing would cost anything. But it's classic. This is a great illustration. Net neutrality is being stood upside down which is good because it's pro-competition, it offers customers options.

The original 'Scream' is one of those classic things, but it totally pokes fun at itself too. It's never taking itself too seriously, which is why I think it's such a cult classic.

The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic.

[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.

There are many stories of people didn't set out to make a film that became a classic - the whole process was a disaster, everybody hated each other, the movie itself was a disaster, everybody thought the movie and the script was going to be a piece of crap. Look at Alfred Hitchcock and Psycho. Nobody wanted to make Psycho; it was crap to them. The only person that wanted to make Psycho was Hitchcock. Now, it's considered a classic and a work of art.

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

There's a classic story I tell about when I did the Man Show about the retarded conversations that you have with the executive producers and the network.

The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.

There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, “Gradually and then suddenly.” When someone asks how I lost my mind, that’s all I can say too.

There's a cord sticking out of the back. Might you tell me where it goes?

There's a lot of your family in tonight.

The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.

There will be other forms in addition to our classic marriage. One is already looming on the horizon: polyamory, or having more than one intimate partner.

There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters.

There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.

The scariest movie I have ever seen, and my favorite horror film is, 'The Exorcist.' It is a must-see horror/thriller classic. I watch it every couple of years.

The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, the "queers" of homosexuality.In fact, they are classic scapegoats. Our old fears about our sissiness, still with us though masked by the new macho fascism, are now located, isolated, quarantined through our persecution of the transvestite.

The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.

They're not mating are they?

The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.

They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.

To be a classic, a novel should be original.

This could only happen in a technical college.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.

This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.

Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare the student for actual combat. A guy could get clobbered while getting into this classical mess. Classical methods like these, which I consider a form of paralysis, only solidify and constrain what was once fluid. Their practitioners are merely blindly rehearsing routines and stunts that will lead nowhere.

Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then!

Under Armour is new, aggressive, slick, classic but athletic - kind of how I always wanted to be perceived.

We just forced them into tough shots that whole overtime. It was a classic five minutes that we needed.

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!

Well, it's kind of like that classic sort of trajectory in this kind of movie where there's conflict and they're estranged and they kind of grow to love each other but they don't show it. Then at the end - it's kind of like that. But I think the characters are more interesting than that.

Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you?

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

We women, when we're searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes.

What I love about watching classic horror films is that they take you on a ride and they obviously make you scared because you're so invested in the characters, you're almost forgetting that oh my God, this is about to scare me.

What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

When I was a lot younger, my parents raised me watching classic movies.

While I was travelling and I kind of had the classic realisation - that I guess most teenagers have at some point - that time's gonna run out and that's not in my power to change that.

When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.

With classic sitcoms like MASH, the characters all drove each other crazy, and that's what you loved to see.

Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.

You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off a more Moroccan-inspired one.

You have mosquitoes. I have the Press.

You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

You bloody silly fool!